Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-05-19
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.

the Riddleberger bill, unless Il specific state
ment TO that effect could have been iucud-
ed in the agreement.
1t is said By Virginians now here that
General Malone. in his next falls CAM
paipn. will endeavor TO make the people OF
his State believe that if he be reelected to
the Senate. he will have influence enough
with the republicans in that body to induce
them to support the idea that the national
government, nv destroying the security up
or which the Virginia debt was created, Is
bouud for that debt; and that some Virgin
ians will be silly enough to believe him.
Whom the President will appoint to fill
the seat ON the supreme bench, made vacant
nv the death of Associate Justice Woods, Is
still a matter Of doubt. Some seem to think
the place will go to Louisiana, as the bench
has often been in need of matter found in
The Code Napoleon, with which Louisiana
LAWYERS are familiar. Others still think
that Attorney General Garland will be ap
pointed, in which case Maryland people
want his place to go to Mr.. Gwynn OF their
State. Senators Morgan and George are
also spoken Of; but if it be true that the
President has said he is opposed to appoint
Ing any man over fifty, for the reason tnat
such a man could resign ca full pay after
twenty wears of service, both the last two
gentlemen are of course ruled out.
Some Of the newspaper correspondents OF
this CITY. who went to Alexandria Tuesday
TO look at the shipyard of the Arrow Steam
shin Co., and to inspect the plans and mod
el of the proposed new ship Pocahontas, eX-
press themselves to-day as very faVorably
impressed with all they saw and heard
there. One of them, who is familiar with
such matters, says the Potomac possesses IN
the highest degree oil the required quallf'
cations for becoming he American Clyde
Recently Dr. G. W. Chancellor, former
ly of Alexandra. but now OF Baltimore,
called at the White House with Senator
German, and was introduced to Mrs. CleVe-
land. During the visit the Doctor thanked
the Presidents wife for beautiful note
she had written to his little daughter
The child who is only eleven years old. has
written a book of nursery rhymes in Eng
lish, which she herself translatedinto French
and German, aad volume of them 10 The
three languages having been published, she
sent it to Mrs Cleveland, who made most
appropriate acknowledgment in writing,
showing warm sympathy with the child au-
thor.
Senator Ransom, Of North Carolina, is
here to-day. When asked by the GAZETTE s
correspondent if there was any truth in the
republican statements to the elect thai
North Carolina would be ono Of The South
ern States that would go republican at the
next national election, he replied that Norm
Carolina was all right, and that Ii Virginia
was as safe, il would be better for her. lie
thought however, ne said, that with all
their troubles the Virginia democrats would
be reunited by tho time of the next national
election.
Major Ben. Perey Poore is still lying crit
icallv i'll. his physicians say, at his hotel,
though he suffers no pain and i5 perfectly
conscious.
As previously stated III this correspond
ence, only two members of the U. S. Su
preme Court, instead of the whole court, as
originally intended, accompanied the re-.
maius Of the late Associate Justice Woods
to Ohio for burial. 1t is reported to day the
reason so few of them ent was request of
,hr President to that effect, and that he
u 10 il lest by an accident more vacancies
might be created on the Supreme bench.
The report is go remarkable that it can
hardly BIO credited.
The steamer Bishop formerly the Jose.
phine, the sister boat of the Armenia, that
was burned at Alexandria soma time ago, and
her exact counterpart, both boats having
been built at the same time for the late
Commodore Vanderbilt, has been bought in
New York, and will be brought here and
run as an excursion boat to Lower Cedar
Point this summer.
The New York SIN Of to day recommends
that ex Representative John S. Barbour, Of
the Alexandria district, be member Of the
committee of the next national democratic
convention appointed to prepare the civil
service reform plank of the platform to be
adopted by that convention.
The CT -lesseos of the Alexandria Canal Com
rany have laid ont a town on the summit of their
tract of land at Roslyn heights, hear the south
end of the old aqueduct bridge. and lost week
sold 10000 feet of lots there at cents foot.